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• @mattcassinelli Matthew Cassinelli on x

  Pretty wild how Amazon is the only company to really lean into 2020. Surveillance drones at home, monitoring the tone of your speech, and now scanning your palm print... https://twitter.com/...

• @adamkotsko Adam Kotsko on x

  I have my own personal phone set up for fingerprint recognition, but what creeps me out about biometric identification and payment more generally is that if it gets “hacked,” I feel like I would have very little recourse. I can't change my fingerprint like I can my password. http…

• @charlesarthur Charles Arthur on x

  Figuring out the threat and surveillance models of this will be quite a thing. Amazon wants to license it, not just use it. https://twitter.com/...

• @marknotfound Mark Evans on x

  the greatest trick tech companies are pulling with payment methods like this and apple pay etc is that using cash or a credit/debit card is complicated and this is easier somehow https://twitter.com/...

• @sirsteven Steven Millward on x

  Interesting to see Amazon steer clear of face scanning. it's clearly banking on palm scanning being non-creepy for people https://twitter.com/...

• @somospostpc Alex B on x

  Google One Apple One Amazon One Microsoft... 365 https://twitter.com/...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Amazon One turns your hand into a credit card. Amazon is hoping this new palm recognition tech will be used in stores, stadiums, and office buildings to let people use their palm to pay / scan. Details here: https://www.theverge.com/...

• @whyischester Chester SA on x

  But why .. I mean seriously, anybody doing this kind of thing has their phone already, why not just stick with Apple Pay or whatever https://twitter.com/...

• @ganeshkulkarni Ganesh on x

  Google One Apple One Now - Amazon One https://twitter.com/...

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  It basically means “we'll upload your palm print to AWS” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @vladsavov Vlad Savov on x

  Amazon's going full “what even is privacy” dystopia on us with palm-reading payments and ID, hot on the heels of flying home drones and mood-detecting wristbands. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @delrey Jason Del Rey on x

  Amazon's hand-scanning payment tech is here. Launching first in Amazon stores, Amazon believes other retailers, including competitors, will use it, too. The big picture: Amazon wants a cut of physical retail happening outside its walls, just like online https://www.vox.com/...

• @tprstly Theo Priestley on x

  Stop normalising biometric data collection into the hands of tech giants. JFC wake up. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/ ...